Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — THE TIN TAX. [ARTICLE]

THE TIN TAX.

A Bobbery That Will Cost the Peo] Ten Tear* 8840,000. [William Saul In the Knight* of Labor Joui ( Already we throw away $11,000,0 s duty alone on/the $21,000,000 worth < plate imported, which, when impoi jobbers’ and retailers’ profit is a; swells the amount to $41,520,000. insti, $30,492,000, which it would be withot, duty, allowing samerateol profit all r< The McKinley bill will about doubli amount of the present duty, since, at the lowest estimate, this pothetical industry, If developed at i UaKota, will take at least ten years’ the simpletons of the United States contribute in that time about $240,C increase the plutocratic class, whose are already on the necks of the commu I speak under correction, but I think is some $18,000,000 invested annual the canning industry, which, Witt present export trade, will be fleri< crippled, if not wiped out, by McKinley bill When one Cons this one item of tin alone and realize! injustice and misery it causes, sur( should be a sufficient object lesson farmers, mechanics and traders ahV unite their marked protest in coi elections by voting down the fetich ol tection to the realms of oblivion and h ing the banner of free trade, which [ all the right inherent in them to bi the cheapest markets in the world ant pend the fruits of their labor to the advantage of themselves and their i lies, placing taxation where it belt and lightening the toiler of bis load posed hy indirect taxation, which ha long robbed the pme*' l.theWwo„